Carl Henderson | Elijah Challenge Coordinator for the Philippines
A powerful testimony of mountain-moving faith with persistence
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Carl trained with The Elijah Challenge in 2006, and is presently serving as a missionary and Senior Pastor of Baguio International Church in the Philippines.
A testimony of persistence with mountain-moving faith"I want to tell you a story about using TEC in the USA four years ago (~2005). We earned our TEC and WOTM experience at home preaching on the streets of Houston, Galveston, and Dallas, Texas, and Mexico, (Which was our “Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria” before we went to “the ends of the earth” in Asia. Acts 1:8)
My 84 year old mother was a bed ridden Alzheimer patient (had not walked in over 4 months), and had not eaten solid food in more than a month. The hospice people said she was dying. We drove a long distance to say our last goodbye to her but I came with a plan to use God’s authority and the name of Jesus to heal her.
After my family sang hymns, ministered to her, and loved on her, they left the room in tears (there was a dark palpable spirit of death in the room). I ministered the Elijah Challenge "A-bomb" to her for over an hour straight, taking authority many times over her many symptoms; those I could remember or that she could tell me about. She experienced some gradual improvement in her smaller symptoms (headache, blurry vision, and weakness, etc,.) I also explained to her God's authority to heal her, while I rubbed lotion on her painful feet. I did this to show my love for her and so that she could believe also.
She was in and out of consciousnesses during this time. I continued speaking to her and commanding the disease. I even rebuked the spirit of death many times.
I continued to commanded healing to her from head to toe, many, many, times and at the end of an hour she said she felt tingling and warmth in her legs. At that point, I commanded her to get up and walk in Jesus name! I helped her to her feet and walked her around her room. At first she walked, slowly but within in 5 minutes with confidence and without help. She walked into the living room with me holding her hand (she said "I was her date") and continued on into the dinning room table and set down at the table and announced (no longer whispering faint words) she was hungry and wanted to eat “real food.”
My shocked family could not believe what they were seeing. My mothers face was even glowing and had color and the deathly pallor was gone and her voice was strong.
My sister who is her caretaker said, "What did you do?" I told her, "God healed her." They made her a dinner and she ate heartily and she followed it with a big piece of pie. She then walked to a chair in the living room and sat down with my 3 year old son (her grandson). They sat together, talked and watched TV (he was meeting her for the first time). After an hour she announced she was tired and wanted to go back to bed, we helped her from the chair and she walked back to bed to nap.
The next day she was still walking around the house and eating by herself (actually getting into the refrigerator and frustrating my poor sister). When we left for our long drive home she wanted to come out on the porch to see us off. We hugged her and left her standing at the door as we drove away.
That was four years ago and she went from her death bed to a nuisance in about an hour because of the TEC A-bomb. My sister tells me that at 89 yrs. old, she is going down hill again with Alzheimer disease and is more in bed than out. However, she already had four more years of life because of the authority and power of Jesus name. She says now "she is tired and is ready to go home to the Lord."
Long story short, don't give up. No one in my family believed after we viewed her terrible condition that she would live let alone be healed. She was obviously dying, in fact, it was hard to keep from weeping at the sight of her. I still hoped and believed she could be healed. One who believes with "Mountain Moving Faith" is more than enough for God. It took some perseverance but our God was and is faithful."
If you believe you will see the glory of the Lord.” John 11:40
A January 2009 Testimony from Carl
Mike came over to the house today at 12:30 noon. I was just completing our weekly training for our Filipino missionary-evangelist. He came with his wife, a Filipino Pastor friend and the pastor’s wife and another woman and his cute little daughter.
Mike, as you know, was born with cerebral palsy after being surgically removed from his deceased mother’s womb in the eight month of her pregnancy. He did not receive enough oxygen in the process and had substantial brain damage from birth. Mike was not optimistic about his healing, but he wanted to believe it was possible for him to be healed. I read through the scriptural commands and showed him our authority in Jesus name. "Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God."
His Filipino pastor friend seemed to be pessimistic about the healing but he had shoulder pain so we offered to heal him first. I told him “shoulder pain is easy to heal.” We laid hands on him and took authority over his shoulder pain. He was quickly healed. He was startled and amazed when the pain left. This opened everyone’s eyes. I don’t think the pastor thought he could be healed until he was. Quietly at first and then louder and louder he started praising God with a look of astonishment on his face. Mike asked him, “is it really healed, is it better? The pastor said yes, “it is gone, it feels good!”
Now they believed there was a definite possibility that they could be healed. We decided to start with Mike's sever cerebral palsy next. We worked with him for over three hours total (My wife, I and our four Filipino missionary-evangelist alternated). As we attempted to heal Mike, he began to manifest many demons. He would doubled over in sever pain, which left him in tears and sometimes unable to talk or speak, sometimes growling, crying, choking, and coughing as the demons came out. The demonic pain traveled from his stomach (after doubling him over in sever pain), then it traveled to his chest, later to the right shoulder and into his right arm, etc,… He fell out of his chair and made many aggressive jesters, we restrained him, took authority over the demons and eventually he ended up writhing in pain and exhaustion on the floor. After we bound the spirits he was finally able to get up again and catch his breath. We gave him several short rest and started again,.. it was exhausting for all of us.
On one of the breaks he told us, “this stuff is real!” He said, “I didn’t really believe it but now I do!” He said, “he figured he would not be healed and that he would then show me I was wrong from the Bible before he left” but he had completely changed his tune now. He told me, “God is really using you!”
We bound the spirits but could not get them to all come out. We alternated between taking authority for healing and casting out the demons. Mike suffered much as a child and has been very vulnerable to demonic oppression from the time of his traumatic birth.
As he was being healed his speech cleared up considerably and he could be understood much easier. He was now speaking whole sentences not just two word sentences. He was walking around easily, and his wrist, were no longer curling inward to his twisted hands. His hands were now opening and closing normally. He was able to get in and out of chairs without help and could walk around much better. He said “I feel tingling in my hands and feet like they are waking up.”
We took a break, ate lunch, he carried his own plate, served himself and even licked his fingers after lunch. He was obviously already happy with his improvement. He was already able to do things he could not do an hour before. His motor skills and coordination had greatly improved. He was talking very understandably but not normally. He tested his eyes reading a book and he said, “I wasted 100 dollars on glasses now I can see without them,” ha-ha-ha! We went back and worked some more and he seemed too keep getting better. I would say he was about 40% better.
We then healed his wife of an ovarian cyst and the pastor’s wife of heart disease, fatigue (from her hearts in ability to move blood) and a thyroid cyst / goiter / enlargement. These two were all healed fairly easily. Both of them felt an immediate change in how they felt and with the thyroid cyst it visibly disappeared.
We had to quit near 4:30 pm because I was late for a 4 pm appointment at the Philippines Immigration Office and I had to leave. There is a problem with my visa, it does not have the proper Filipino signatures on it, please pray that I get my passport back and that I do not get deported.
Mike and his wife and friends left in good spirits. Mike had good circulation and color in his face and he has a much lighter heart and disposition now. He was smiling from ear to ear. He was walking well and talking much more clearly. Everyone was amazed and very excited and happy when they left. I would say, he was about 40% better than when he arrived. Plus the pastor, his wife, and Mike’s wife were all healed.
My only concerns is that some of the demons did not seem to come out. Perhaps they will keep coming out and the healing will continue to progress now that he has left us.
God is good! We did not get everything we hoped for but he is substantially better than when he arrived. As I said, I would estimate he was approximately 40 percent better. Three and a half people were healed, we wanted all four to be healed but God is both merciful, gracious, and sovereign.
To God be the glory!
Pastor Carl Henderson
Missionary to the Philippines
BIC/MOR
www.m-o-r.net
Luke 10:9 "Heal the sick who are there and tell them,
'The kingdom of God is near you.’"